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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!newshub.cts.com!news15.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!howland.erols.net!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!nwnewsold.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho.halcyon.com!dorian From: dorian@coho.halcyon.com (Aaron Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Apache & BSD Netowrk problems Date: 20 Aug 1996 04:18:18 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4vbeaa$f2l@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm having some problems keeping my web server system (P5-133 96 megs RAM ISA NE2000 Network Card, Scsi Saturn 2gig) up. I am web hosting a customer who gets about 10,000 visiotors a day, but as soon as I put him on the server it continually crashes as soon as apache opens too many servers to respond to requests. The default apache MaxClients is 150, which I lowered to 60, but it will still crash unless I top it out around 45 or 50. The machine was running on 32 megs of ram (which I upgraded to 96 thinking that apache was crashing due to going into swap) but it still crashes around the same hit load. Could this be a problem with a poor network card (generic NE2000) I will be putting in a 3c509 tomorrow, but if that doesn't work I'll be about ready to ditch it and buy an UltraSPARC (which I would rather not do). Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this web server back into shape? (Please reply by email if possible) Thank you. Aaron Mitchell dorian@halcyon.com